The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-25
DOES FARMING PAY?
A Practical and Sensible Answer to a
Frequently Repeated Question.

Frequently Repeated Question.
There are so many things to be con-
sidered in individual cases that rules
can not be laid down and strictly adj
hered to in any bIanch of farming.
The man that succeeds in making
farming profitable must have adapta-
bility to use what he has to the best
advantage. Should 1 say, because on
my farm there is not all the improved
machinery for growing wheat, that /
will give up trying to raise wheat, it
can not be done at profit; or because
I have no potato planter, digger, and
other appliances of the most approved
and expensive kind, that I will not
raise a potato because it can not be
done without these at profit? How
many of our successful farmers had
improved machinery to start withp 1t
is not so much The machine as the man
who uses them, that makes them pay.
I trust that no one will think by this
l do not appreciate good tools to farm
with. If a man can buy a thing which
will help him to raise larger and bet
ter crop at less expense, then he is GER
tainly right, and we advise him to ego
ahead" but don't let us get into either
one of two ruts-that of thinking we
can not do without things Mr.. So and
So has, even if we have to run in debt
for them, or that we can do without
things we are satisfied would increase
our income.
One of the bad things we have to re-
cord of ourselves is, we don't do as
we'll as we might in our present cir
cumstances. For instance, if we pillow
piece carelessly, ''cut and cover"
etc., will twenty-fve-dollar clod-
crusher, thirty-dollar roller, one-hun-
dred-dollar drill and Northumberland
lar binder be likely to give a profita-
BILE crop of wheatP We read, perhaps,
of a man in our own State who raises
forty bushels of wheat per acre. We
learn after inquiry that he used a GER
tain implement or set of implements.
They may not be suited to our farm at
all. We must look to the soil nc work,
not to some other mans farm. Some
have come to doubt whether the farm
pays. 1t must come nearer home than
the farm. Can the farmer himself
adapt his talent, labor and his capital
to get profit from his farm? Hun
dreds of men are making money
on their farms every day, many
of them were not the best
of farmers to begin with. Hun
dreds, on the other hand, use sinking
money and getting discouraged every
day. Let these change farms and the
result would be the same, only more
so. 1t is not the business, nor luck,
nor stock, general or speciality farming.
It's the man that makes success or
failure.
Whatever crop or thing we raise, let
us strive to make it desirable. Study
the markets and crop reports. Don't
be SO deceived as to look only at the
prospect in your own vicinity. How
to buy and sell is worthy our earnest
attention. The one who is careful
about this will often see the specuIator
or dealer pocket double his share of
profit. Such men label man lucky"
if he sells as rule to advantage, bit
set it down that he takes the papers
and gets out of them the information
which, placed beside his Judgment,
shall make him successful in this line.
The time has come when manual labor
must be well seasoned with thought to
make American farming pay-M G
Frost, is Ohio Farmer.